Double Letters Puzzle – ACEIMRSTY

While reorganizing my filing cabinets just before the end of the school year, I ran across a double letters puzzle that I had printed and laminated but never used with students. This had to be remedied! I added magnets on the back of each piece so it could be easily posted on the dry erase board.

I buy my disc magnets in bulk from Amazon (200 at a time). They are super strong, and they have made for so much puzzling fun this school year. In fact, I just bought a new box for next school year.

The goal this double letters puzzle is to place the 9 double letter cards in a line in an overlapping manner so that a real word (10 letters) is formed. No card may be fully covered, rotated, or flipped.

These puzzles were created by Serhiy Grabarchuk. He actually calls them “DoubLetters” puzzles. Serhiy published another one of his DoubLetters puzzles on Puzzles.com in February of 2012. You can download a PDF of that puzzle here.

This double letters puzzle is from Puzzle Box, Volume 3. I absolutely adore this three volume set of puzzles. It truly helped fuel my obsession with finding and using puzzles in the classroom.